Package for fishing lines and the like



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PACKAGE FOR FISHING LINES AND THE LIKE Filed Oct. 6, 1955 I INVENTOR;

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Patented July 16, 1935 UNITED S E messes PATENT we Application October 6, lssaseris Nd 692,484 1 Claim. (crates-79) i This invention relates to packages or holders for cords, lines, etc., which are put up in small coils, as fishing lines, and has for its object a package or holder or display card by which the 5 line can be coiled and secured to the card in one operation in contradistinction to being first wound and the coil placed on and secured to the card. It further has for its object such a card or 10 holder provided with complemental slots and tongues radial with the center of the coil with the tongues joined integrally or otherwise to the card at the inner ends of the radial slots, and bendable or capable of being looped over the coil and passed through the slots, the slots and tongues having edges which bind on each other, or coact with each other, with a Wedging action, so that the tension due to the looping of the tongues over the coil tends to tighten the tongue 20 in the slot.

It further has for its object a card or holder with such slots and tongues, on which the lines or cords can be replaced or rewound after being removed and the tongues replaced in interwedging action with the slots. I

It further has for its object a card or holder having slots or tongues of such a naturethat the card can be placed in a winding machine and the line wound aroundthe tongues, which serve 0 as studs, and thereafter, due to the shape of the slots and tongues, the tongues interfitted with a Wedging action with the slots, so that the card with the coil secured thereto is removed, as a unit, from the winding machine.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawing, in which like charactersdesignate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of two cards provided with my invention, in which the coils thereon are joined together, one of the cards being broken away.

Figure 2 is an 2- -2, Figure 1. v V

Figure 3 is a fragmentary isometric view illustrating the coaction of the tongues and slots.

It will be understood that the cards with cords, fishing lines, etc. coiled thereto are oftentimes made up, say in dozen or two dozen etc. lots, with the coils joined together in series, so that when they are being sold one by one, the line connecting them is severed orthe customer may purchase enlarged sectional View on line a dozen or more and sever them as he needs them. I designates a card, sheet or holder, usually of cardboard, having a plurality of slots 2 extending radially relatively to a center and tongues 3 complemental to the slots and joined to the sheet or card at the inner ends of the slots. Preferably, the tongues are struck from the card, thus forming the slots complemental to the tongueaand preferably there are four of such tongues and slots passed through the slots, the diverging edges 1 will coact with the narrower portions of the diverging side walls 6 of the slots and coact therewith with a wedging action, owing to the tension on the tongues due to the tongues being looped over the coils. Hence, the tension on these tongues holds the tongues in position with the wedging action and at the same time, the tongues can be readily displaced, if desired, for removing the coil and also replaced, if the line is rewound on the tongues.

As clearly seen in Figure 3, the diverging edges of the tongues extend at an inclined angle crosswise of the diverging side walls 6 of the slots and owing to the fact that the tongues are, in effect, shortened, relatively to the slots due to the bulging thereof over the coil, a portion of the diverging ends of the tongues engages with thenarrower portion of the slot at 8 causing the tongues to bind in the slot with a wedging action.

As here shown, the tongues and slots are in the general form of a fish with the tail of the fish toward the outer ends of the slots and tongues.

In operation, the cards are placed in a winding machine and the tongues projected outward by the placing operation. The coils wound around the tongues, as studs, although the machine itself has something in the nature of a hub on the periphery of which the tongues rest and about the periphery of which the coils are wound. When a given length of line is wound, the tongues are folded over through the slots by mechanism in themachine for that purpose and the card with the coil thereon removed, and

owing to the shape of the tongues and slots, or the wedging coaction of the tongues and slots,

the coils are held snugly on the card. By reason of the tongues and the fact that they tighten automatically on the coils, the operation of manually tying the coils by separate short strings or of tying the coils to the card is eliminated, thus effecting a saving in time in winding the coils and. securing them to the card. The coils on several cards are joined together in a series by the connecting pieces II, but this feature forms no part of this invention. After the coil has been removed once from the card, it can be rewound on the card, if desired, and after the line is wound thereon, the tongues can be replaced in wedging coaction with the slots.

What I claim is:

A package for coiled lines, cords, and the like comprising a sheet having radially extending slots spaced apart around the center and tongues complemental to the slots and joined to the sheet at the inner ends of the slots, the tongues forming supports on which the line is coiled, the tongues and the slots having the portions toward their outer ends extending in concave curves whereby the side edges of the tongues and corresponding edges of the slots curve inwardly and then. outwardly toward the ends of. the tongues and slots providing a taii portion of less width than the portions of the tongues passing over the coil, with the outer end portions extending outward at an oblique angle to the plane of the sheet and the side edges of the outer end portions flaring outwardly so that they engage the narrower portions of the slots with a wedging action when the tongues are looped over the coiled line" and their end portions extended through the slots at an oblique angle.

ORRIN MACMURRAY. 

